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This article investigates rural differentiation through an inquiry into the ratio of rural housing price to the income of rural households. The households surveyed here are classified into five income groups, namely, the low-income, the lower-middle-income, the middle-income, the upper-middle-income, and the high-income groups. They are further grouped into three categories according to their house-building or -purchasing abilities, namely those whose family members mainly live in the purchased condominiums in towns and cities; those who live in the newly built houses in the countryside; and those who give up building a new house in the rural area. It is concluded that income gap is the root cause of rural stratification, that the well-to-do of the rural households tend to flow into the towns and cities, which impedes the long-term development of the rural area and the entire national economy, and that those households who give up a house-building plan have basically lost their upward-moving opportunities in the course of social restructuring. (This article is in Chinese.)
Rural China: An International Journal of History and Social Sciences – Brill
Published: Nov 18, 2015
Keywords: housing price-to-income ratio; differentiation
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